Peace Now and its allies, with just a few days to organize, held a demonstration in Tel Aviv on
Saturday, Febuary 1st to expose this annexation plan for the trap that it is, appealing to the sanity of fellow
Israelis to see how those peddling this scheme are trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public.
Democracy. Equality. Two States.
Peace.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Sunday February 2, 2020
Quote of the day:
*Of all people, we, who were persecuted all those years, need to understand and internalize the great
damage and suffering that is caused to a person who is suffers from manifestations of racism”
—Moshe Hogeg, owner of Beitar Jerusalem soccer team, which was long known for its fans’ racism towards Arabs and Blacks, writes in Op-Ed about the changes he is making to the team's club, which also affect the face of Israeli society.*
You Must Be Kidding:
A lieutenant colonel at the IDF's Unit 504, the Israeli military’s human intelligence agency, had a spy go to the West Bank to buy containers of tahini and bring them back for the unit’s commander.**
—Moshe Hogeg, owner of Beitar Jerusalem soccer team, which was long known for its fans’ racism towards Arabs and Blacks, writes in Op-Ed about the changes he is making to the team's club, which also affect the face of Israeli society.*
You Must Be Kidding:
A lieutenant colonel at the IDF's Unit 504, the Israeli military’s human intelligence agency, had a spy go to the West Bank to buy containers of tahini and bring them back for the unit’s commander.**
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(from the translation provided by Israel News Today)
Netanyahu is right. This truly was an historic evening. The plan bearing Trump’s name seals one chapter and opens a new chapter in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The two-state solution, which has dominated international discourse ever since 1993, has now lost the last vestiges of its relevance. One state will rule between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, under the grace of America. This isn’t a peace plan; it’s an annexation plan. Is that good for Israel or bad for it? It depends whom you ask.
We’ve had lots of American plans and mediators in the time since President Reagan’s plan in 1982. Each one of those initiatives created a major stir in its day. Despite the excitement, they left in their wake expectations that made reaching an agreement difficult.
The Trump plan has done more than that; it has given the Netanyahu government support to take a series of unilateral steps, starting this coming Sunday. In the initial stage, the settlement blocs and the Jordan Valley will be annexed. Israel will annex the isolated settlements and the access roads leading to them in the second stage.
This episode features a conversation with Daoud Kuttab, a veteran Palestinian journalist who splits his time between the West Bank and Amman, Jordan. He is the Director-General of the Community Media Network in Amman and a regular contributor to leading publications in both English and Arabic.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday January 30, 2020
Quote of the day:
“The White House looked like Habayit Hayehudi (nationalist-religious Zionist party) the other day,
awash in kippot and Yiddishkeit. Does one have to be an anti-Semite to wonder about this? With all the
wheeler-dealer peacemakers – all these Friedmans, Adelsons, Greenblatts, Kushners and Berkowitzes, these
supposedly fair and unbiased mediators, it’s impossible to even think about the start of a fair accord. It’s
not hard to guess what goes through the mind of every Palestinian and every seeker of justice at the sight of
this all-Jewish and all-right-wing class picture.”
—Gideon Levy writes in Haaretz+ that the unfair Trump plan is the start of the third Nakba.*
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—Gideon Levy writes in Haaretz+ that the unfair Trump plan is the start of the third Nakba.*
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Trump’s Plan Between Policy and Politics
Listen to APN's briefing call from Thursday, January 30th with veteran Israeli political analyst
Akiva Eldar.
Akiva addressed the Trump administration’s so-called “Deal of the Century,” Trump’s proposal for a permanent status settlement between Israel and the Palestinians. He discussed both the goals of the Trump administration’s policy on Israel and the Palestinians and the politics behind it, and the impact that unveiling the plan has and will have on Israeli politics.
Yossi Alpher is an independent security analyst. He is the former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, a former senior official with the Mossad, and a former IDF intelligence officer. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent APN's views and policy positions.
Washington, DC – The vision submitted today by Donald Trump's
White House for an alleged final settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict deals a severe blow to efforts
to achieve real peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
This vision is not a "peace plan" but rather a scheme, co-authored by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump, to allow for an immediate annexation of all Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the entire Jordan Valley. Hours ago, shortly after the Trump "vision" was unveiled, Benjamin Netanyahu's government announced that it will submit to the Knesset an annexation bill this coming Sunday.
This plan is a recipe for disaster, for annexation, for the perpetuation of Israel's occupation of the West Bank, for the perpetuation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for misery and bloodshed.
APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday January 28, 2020
Quote of the day:
“If you look at the dictionary, you'll understand (the Palestinian entity laid out in the Trump plan)
isn't the definition of a state. That is not what the plan allows, and so the resistance from the Right and the
rabbis is a mistake."
--Unnamed 'senior US official' tells 'Israel Hayom' that right-wing does not have to be concerned that the Trump plan gives Palestinians a state.*
You Must Be Kidding:
"Over the course of the past decade, the likelihood of separation has diminished. The right-wing is creating the reality of one large, binational state…Another neighborhood and another outpost - and the binational state, which will be non-Jewish and non-democratic, is forming. So maybe, who knows, this is the last opportunity the right-wing can be a part of. So the choice is not between the Clinton outline, the Geneva Initiative or the John Kerry draft in 2014 and the Trump deal. The choice is between a bi-national state and the Trump deal."
--Yedioth's right-wing commentator Ben-Dror Yemini says the threat of the illegal expansion of the settlement enterprise on the side of Israel should be reason enough to convince the Zionist left-wing leaders to accept the Trump plan.*
--Unnamed 'senior US official' tells 'Israel Hayom' that right-wing does not have to be concerned that the Trump plan gives Palestinians a state.*
You Must Be Kidding:
"Over the course of the past decade, the likelihood of separation has diminished. The right-wing is creating the reality of one large, binational state…Another neighborhood and another outpost - and the binational state, which will be non-Jewish and non-democratic, is forming. So maybe, who knows, this is the last opportunity the right-wing can be a part of. So the choice is not between the Clinton outline, the Geneva Initiative or the John Kerry draft in 2014 and the Trump deal. The choice is between a bi-national state and the Trump deal."
--Yedioth's right-wing commentator Ben-Dror Yemini says the threat of the illegal expansion of the settlement enterprise on the side of Israel should be reason enough to convince the Zionist left-wing leaders to accept the Trump plan.*
Breaking News:
Netanyahu Withdraws Request for Immunity From Prosecution in Corruption Cases, Indictments Filed in Court Against Him (Haaretz+, Israel Hayom and Ynet)
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